John Singleton Copley did not share the politics of revolutionary heroes such as Paul Revere and Sam Adams — but he did paint their portraits. John Singleton Copley: The Painter Who Captured The ...

John Singleton Copley (1738-1815), the first great American painter, once wrote that he “was peculiarly unlucky” to be an artist in the colonies. Though he had thrived professionally in Boston, he ...

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In this life of painter John Singleton Copley, award-winning Harvard historian Jane Kamensky masterfully untangles the web of principles and interests that shaped the age of America's revolution.